@terrypinDELETE: "I've just come across Foobar <url>
Anyone here familiar with it please? I loaded a few MP3s. One had no
YEAR tag according to my other players (MediaMonkey, WMP9, WinAmp
etc). Yet in Foobar, R-click > Properties displays a 'MetaData' window
which does shows Year (= 1942). Several other fields in Foobar don't
square with tags in those other players, such as COMMENT, and GENRE.
That last for example is shown as 'Easy Listening' in Media Monkey
etc, but in Foobar it is 'popular music 1925-1955'
Where does Foobar get this data please?
FWIW, the track under discussion is
Dinah Shore - Miss You; Track 3 from 'Great Romantic Memories of The
War Years Disk 3'
Terry, West Sussex, UK"
    @terrypinDELETE: "<quote>
Thanks. From a quick google, I gather APE are MediaMonkey's
proprietary audio file format, yes? But the file I described was an
MP3.
Terry, West Sussex, UK"
    @me: "In  article <email_address>, Terry Pinnell 
said...
<quote>
Not exactly.  Monkey's Audio files have the .ape extension.
Ape tags can be written to mp3 files.  They are written at the end of the 
file, like an id3v1 file is, but they have multiple fields, much like an 
id3v2 file has.  Some people don't like id3v2 files because writing or 
making major changes to the tag, particularly if the tag has not been 
padded, means that the entire mp3 file actually has to be re-written to 
the hard-drive, introducing a (minuscule) chance of file corruption and 
taking a (negligibly) longer time to accomplish.  For this reason ape 
tags are becoming more popular with some users of mp3 files despite the 
fact that most (all?) portable players and most software players do not 
read them or handle them correctly. 
Foobar2K users seem to like them a lot.
CQ"
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